Written for Ursula and Adrian on the occasion of their wedding on 3rd June 2006.

This short opera (duration of 50 minutes) aptly designed for children to perform with modest resources is a version of the familiar tale though with certain adaptations. Cinderella is an au pair girl who arrives on the scene bytrain and there are three ugly sisters who get their just deserts in marriage to the appalling leaders of the armed forces. Writing for children in the Orkney Islands Davies has also included some local references: these can bechanged to suit other times and places. Musically the piece is a bright sequence of little songs choruses dialogue scenes and dances probably best suited to children between the ages of eight and twelve though the parts of theugly sisters can usefully be taken by boys with broken voices. Text only. Duration c. 50mins.

Written for SSATBB choir.

A continuous setting of six poems from George Mackay Brown's Fishermen with Plough which concern the traditional ways of life and death in Radwick the village on hoy Orkney where the composer lived for 28 years. The choir issupported throughout the piece by pointing entries and doubling the choral lines within the piano part. The piano part is not just an accompaniment it has it's own discourse and is correspondingly challenging. For SATB Choirwith Piano accompaniment.

Written for piano string quintet SAT voices and backing tape.

The Quiet Room is an ideal album pieces arranged for solo Piano for moments of contemplation and reflection. It opens up a world of melodic introspective inspired contemporary classics featuring music by many of theworld's finest composers including Ludovico Einaudi Michael Nyman Philip Glass Gabriel Yared Joby Talbot and Patrick Hawes.

Kevin Volans' String Quartet No. 9: Shiva Dances was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and first performed by the Smith Quartet at the 2004 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Kevin Volans (the composer) notes on the piece: In the past I have been interested in trying to go beyond historicism (1970s) beyond style(1980s) and beyond form (1990s) in my work. Looking back over the music of the twentiethcentury I was struck by the fact the nearlyall of it is extremely 'busy' almost cluttered. Italmost seemed that composers felt compelled to look industrious. In the new millennium Ithought it would be interesting to try and eliminate content. I also aspired to movingfrommusic (sound as art) to art (art as sound). This of course has already been done by a numberof composers (many from New York – Phil Niblock and La Monte Young to name but two) butit was something I had never tried.AlthoughI found it annoying that the label 'minimalist' was given to my African-based work and fearing this would make the label stick I set out to write a piece which reflected my loveof minimal painting and architecture. The Japanesehave a term 'wabi' meaning 'voluntarypoverty' or 'emptiness' to describe their restrained minimal aesthetic an aesthetic which however pays greatest attention to the quality of material and fine detail. I like to think thatthelack of excessive pitch material in this piece reflects a kind of voluntary poverty.When Shiva is portrayed dancing (as Nataraj) He is depicted in a circle of flames crushing asmall figure – the ego – underfoot.You get theimpression He dances on the spot not movingaround at all. I like that. The piece is dedicated to Pablo Pascual Cilleruelo.

This exciting score contains the music from the popular Honda Civic 'Choir' TV commercial featuring a choir reproducing all of the sounds created by in and around a Honda Civic on a typical journey. Steve Sidwell's score callsfor a variety of vocal effects whistling chest thumps teeth taps beat-boxing and more to mimic the sounds of the car's engine tyres on the road windscreen wipers rain on the roof etc with remarkable accuracy. For largemixed voice choirs this is a challenging but fun performance piece and an ideal encore choice.

Award-winning contemporary Polish composer Pawel Lukaszewski is highly celebrated as a creator of sacred Choral music. His style owes everything to the great traditions of Western music though his harmonic palette is more modernin style and he sometimes makes use of unusual Vocal effects when suggested by the text.Psalmus 102 is scored for unaccompanied Chorus SATB with a chant-inspired rendering of the words that the Western Bible knows as Psalm 103.

Luminosity is commissioned by the conductor James Jordan of Westminster Choir College for the Westminster Williamson Voices the women of the Westminster Schola Cantorum the Blair AcademySingers (conductor William Hammer) and the black-light dance company Archedream for performance in Philadelphia Cathedral during April 2008. The text compiled and edited by the composer centres on the transcendentbeauty of creation expressed by luminaries down the ages. Texts are taken from the writings of St. John; St. Teresa of Avila; Ryonen; St. Augustine; Julian of Norwich and St. Isaac of Nineveh.

Parts consist of Piano accompaniment melody in C melody in Eb and melody in Bb.

This work was commissioned by the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig. First performance on 22nd August 2009 at the Leipzig Gewandhaus given by Daniel Hope (violin) and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig conducted by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

A collection of twenty-three popular tunes specially arranged as short pieces for clarinettists of Grades 2 to 3 with simple Piano accompaniments. This book is a perfect opportunity to build a repertoire of favouriteswhilst still in the early stages of learning the instrument.

Homunculus is a short (circa 12 minutes) work for string quartet which the composer wrote during the Autumn months of 2007 for the Johannes Quartet. He wanted to compose a piece that would be very compact in form andduration but still contain many different characters and textures. In other words a little piece that behaves like a big piece. He has long been fascinated (and amused) by the arcane spermists’ theory who held the beliefthat the sperm was in fact a 'little man' (homunculus) that was placed inside a woman for growth into a child. This seemed to them to neatly explain many of the mysteries of conception. It was later pointed out that if the spermwas a homunculus identical in all but size to an adult then the homunculus may have sperm of its own. This led to a reductio ad absurdum with an endless chain of homunculi. This was not necessarily considered by spermists afatal objection however as it neatly explained how it was that 'in Adam' all had sinned: the whole of humanity was already contained in his loins. He decided to call my piece Homunculus despite the obvious weaknesses of thespermists’ thinking as he found the idea of a perfect little man strangely moving.

Thirty-three stylistically diverse pieces for Cello Duet. Suitable for the early grades (1-3). Selected and edited by Emma Coulthard.

A collection of preludes for Piano by the celebrated Polish composer.

Frap an anglicized version of the French ‘frapper’ meaning ‘to hit’ was commissioned by the Safri Duo of Danish electronic Percussionists as a short opener for their concerts. Wallin describes thelighthearted pieces as ‘a game exploring togetherness and not-togetherness’. At various points the musicians are instructed to play in unison in syncopation or freely or to play in canon with an eighth (quaver) note separationand are given other choices. Therefore each performance of Frap will be unique. Composer Rolf Wallin is a renowned Nordic composer whose work encompasses elements of classical training jazz early music and avant garde rock while incorporating a wide range of techniques and expressions.

A sumptuous paintakingly researched and fully authoritative edition of Stravinsky's 'Choreographic Scenes With Singing And Music' in large-format vocal score. Part of the Chester Stravinsky Edition series thispresentation of Les Noces is fully edited by Margarita Mazo based upon relevant autograph and printed scores. The book includes a substantial analytical history of the work examining the significance of the piece in thecanon of the great Stravinsky scores. You will find a full choreographical assessment by Stephanie Jordan alongside a detailed critical commentary by Mazo and associate editor Millan Sachania. A comprehensive bar-by-bar guide tothe texts and transliteration is also included making this a indispensable edition for the choral leader and accompanist. Performance text in French and Russian.

Five Love Songs are scored for Soprano and Guitar They were composed in 1955 making them one of the composer's earliest published works. They are dedicated to the Soprano Flore Wend and the guitarist HermannLeeb while the text is drawn from poems by the Welsh poet Robert Parry (1540-1612) which were first written around 1595. Thea Musgrave (b. 1928) is a Scottish-American composer. Over a career spanning more than60 years she has established herself as one of the leading contemporary composers on both sides of the Atlantic.

Nocturne is an unusual cyle of four songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Chamber Orchestra punctuated with five characterful instrumental interludes. The songs are settings of texts by W.H.Auden Stephen Spender Alun Lewis andHerbert Read and are suitable for the confident female soloist